We are all aware that in the AWS-cloud world of today, immutable infrastructure and deployments are preferrable. It is also a fact that if we use immutable deployments, it means we often create multiple Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). To reduce storage costs we might want to delete (or deregister, in AWS speak) these AMIs …
It has been a while since my last post about CDK – we’ve had a few challenging months: we had to self-isolate several times, the whole family have been ill with a stomach bug, and our son is going through the terrible twos. So blogging, talks, and working on professional development had to be …
The moment I learnt that S3 Object Lambda was out, I knew I’d want to experiment with it. Why? For two reasons really – at work we have quite a few scenarios when the same objects in S3 need to be presented in different shapes or forms, data extracted, or content transformed. So I’ve …
A few days ago I was tasked with provisioning infrastructure for an application using Terraform. Until recently my experience with RDS instances had been creating, copying and sharing snapshots, and referencing the correct snapshot in the resource block of the Terraform script. On this occasion, however, I needed to create a database instance without …
This is a long overdue post about how my experiments with CDK Pipelines are going. I hope that there will be a few blog posts about my experience with it, depending on how much time I have spare. This particular post is focused on how to set up a Github repo as the code …
Como si no bastara con el blog en inglés, voy a intentar a escribir algunos posts en español. Lo voy a hacer por mantener mi nivel del idioma – he vivido en España dos años y le tengo mucho carino al país, cultura y el castellano. Además, me acuerdo que una vez fui a …
Just a little note-taking post to reinforce some concepts from practice exams today. Access Advisor on IAM console helps to identify/remove unused IAM roles. IAM Access Analyzer helps to identify resources that are shared externally. If you configure forecast based AWS Budgets alerts, it takes 5 weeks to generate the forecasts. Cloudfront Key pairs …
So, I have the AWS Developer Associate exam booked in a week’s time, so I’m going through all the services the questions about which are likely to come up in the exam. Yesterday I looked at Elastic Beanstalk, an AWS service that lets you quickly deploy application with things such as load balancing, autoscaling …
I’m a big fan of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper (DDD) events. I was lucky to attend DDD South West in 2018 before my son was born. Needless to say I’m very happy that the recordings of the 2020 conference are available on YouTube, and this has been my pastime in the morning when I’m getting Andre’s lunch …
Finally, I’ve managed to find some time to write about my experience of further playing with AWS CDK. Christmas time is supposed to be the time to relax and spend with the family, but since there isn’t that much to do in another lockdown, and to get a break from looking after Andre, I’ve …